For each railway a Railway Council is to be appointed consisting of not more than ten representatives of the company and ten representatives of the employees. The representatives of the employees will consist of two members of each Sectional Council; each side will have a secretary with power to take part in the proceedings. The Railway Council will deal with all matters with which a Sectional Council can deal, and which are of common interest to two or more sections, but it can deal with no matter before a Sectional Council has had an opportunity of considering it. If a Sectional Council is unable to agree on any matter, the employees’ side may refer it to the Trade Unions concerned, or the Council may, by agreement, refer it to the Railway Council. If a Sectional or a Railway Council cannot agree on any question of the local application of national agreements in regard to rates of pay and conditions of service, the matter of difference may be submitted by the employees’ side to the Trade Unions concerned, who take it up with the Company, and, failing agreement, may refer it to the Central Wages Board. Before employees can submit any question to a Sectional or Railway Council they must first submit it to the company to consider in the ordinary way, but, failing a satisfactory answer within twenty-one days, the facts may be reported to the employees’ secretary of the Council concerned, and the company itself must proceed in the same way. The working of the Railway Councils and Committees will be followed with the greatest interest by all concerned in the development of industrial conciliation machinery. CHAPTER XVI GOVERNMENT LABOUR POLICY FOR AGRICULTURE Government War-time Control—Government’s New Policy in 1921—The Establishment of Joint Conciliation Committees in England and Wales—The Work of the Conciliation Committees—Agriculture and Unemployment Insurance. Government War-time Control